Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by franze on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:16AM (#38624663)

I mostly code my own games with a target group of 1, my favourites are

http://lalo.li/lsd/

https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/

https://spinner.franzai.com/

https://dance.franzai.com/ (basically a lava lamp you can interact with)

from the app side i like

https://qrpwd.franzai.com/

coded to save my 2 factor backup codes encoded in my photo stream

and

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy

a command line trim&copy&paste tool for files and webpages

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by rlonn on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:25AM (#38624735)

http://lalo.li/lsd/ was really cool. You should make a mobile app out of it

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by c0wb0yc0d3r on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:12AM (#38627614)

It worked just fine on my phone

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by runjake on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:48PM (#38633226)

I think they were alluding to monetizing it as an app.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by actionfromafar on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:01AM (#38625054)

The QR thing is really cool. Love it. I have often wondered how much "hard" data could be stored as images without loss in various environments such as iCloud, whatever Google has and so on.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by admaiora on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:47AM (#38625454)

I think this article from last year on storing files as Youtube videos might be interesting for you . The creator stores pictures in youtube videos that represent compressed data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31495049

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by amenghra on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:14AM (#38625169)

http://lalo.li/lsd/ is fun! You could add so many twists to it, e.g. a thing that throws multiple balls if one ball arrives in it (think pinball machines).

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by lurker616 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:49AM (#38625478)

I just spent 30mins on lalo.li/lsd!

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by jmathai on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:44AM (#38626533)

I did this and went to take a shower. Needs a timer so I know how long it took :)

https://imgur.com/a/QjoBw4h

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by smallbluedot on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:41AM (#38629932)

Same. Great game!

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by punkspider on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @06:12AM (#38625653)

I really should finish my work instead of playing lalo.li/lsd

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by akshayKMR on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:28AM (#38627832)

I don't get it. What are the controls? I'm using Firefox on desktop.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by wetback on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:39AM (#38627993)

Click and drag to draw lines.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by tomjen3 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:48AM (#38628114)

Its a mouse based game. You put down walls that the ball hits.

Object of the game is to get the ball into the box.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by franze on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:57AM (#38628255)

Or tab-based game on mobile. Tab down, draw line, tab up.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by S_Pineapple on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:26AM (#38626356)

Adding to what other commenters already said, I really enjoyed lalo.li. I found myself playing it for quite a while and enjoying the challenge of moving the ball around with lines.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by nikitoci on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:01AM (#38629328)

Is there a bug in the lsd game? If you draw a line exactly in the middle of the ball falling, it gets stuck on that line wiggling like a pearl on a string.

Great game!!

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by franze on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:18AM (#38629572)

yeah, but that glitching is also something that makes the game more fun, cause if the ball gets enclosed into an area, you can try to glitch yourself out of it.

the very ugly MIT-like licensed code can be found here, and it is from a time when I thought it was fun to code my own little physics engine

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lsd/blob/gh-pages/main-20...

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by lsferreira42 on Friday December 15, 2023 @10:52AM (#38655324)

Man, this http://lalo.li/lsd/ is a really fun game, i lost about half an hour on it now

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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? by gebt on Sunday December 17, 2023 @09:15AM (#38672961)

I love them!

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